Friday, September 22, 2017

disorder is essentially conflict 

we are trying politically, legally and socially to bring order in the outer world in which we are living, and inwardly we are confused, uncertain, anxious and in conflict. without inward order there will always be danger to human life. what do we mean by order? the universe in the supreme sense has known no disorder. nature, however terrifying to man, is always in order. it becomes disordered only when human beings interfere with it and it is only man who seems to be from the beginning of time in constant struggle and conflict. the universe has its own movement of time. only when man has ordered his life will he realize the eternal order. why has man accepted and tolerated disorder? why does whatever he touches decay, become corrupt and confused? why has man turned from the order of nature, the clouds, the winds, the animals and the rivers? we must learn what is disorder and what is order. disorder is essentially conflict, self-contradiction and division between becoming and being.

krishnamurti,
letters to the schools

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